That's pretty funny. Like only veg'ns eat quinoa. My mom works at a preschool and they feed the kids quinoa for lunch -- no one there is vegetarian. It's also really useful for gf folks, who may outnumbers vegans at this point.

They also brought up that silly argument re soy, conveniently forgetting how much if it goes to animal feed. Sounds like someone was looking to ruffle some feathers :-/

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Everyone get ready for the onslaught from annoying family members, friends and co-workers emailing you this article and posting it to your Facebook wall.

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it's even more frustrating that you can't leave a comment, yet they say at the top "comment is free"

That's probably a browser issue- there were near 400 comments last time I checked, and it has jumped at least 2 pages since then.

Most times vegan articles appear on the Guardian it's a caramel cluster of idiocracy. It's difficult to tell with the new embedded comments thing, but it does at least seem that a majority of people are calling it out for the baws it is?

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Everyone get ready for the onslaught from annoying family members, friends and co-workers emailing you this article and posting it to your Facebook wall.

Already had it happen on twitter! Where's my bingo card?

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See, and this is where i think what the fork internet, how can y'all tell me Scottish people are wankers and eat bullshiitake food all the time while, at the damn same time as I was reading all this gubbins every damn person at my work tonight (we were on late shift til 9pm) was simultaneously reading this baws and saying to me "the fork! this is the stupidest article ever!" Honestly, I think we all fell down a wormhole from outerspace I do.

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Although they do talk about how people are abandoning quinoa, it's not just because the price has increased, but because those who grow it have more disposable income from their cash crop to buy more fashionable western alternatives.

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Although they do talk about how people are abandoning quinoa, it's not just because the price has increased, but because those who grow it have more disposable income from their cash crop to buy more fashionable western alternatives.

Yeah, I'd see this scenario more or hopefully. Basically, if you get paid a lot for quinoa, sell that and buy whatever. I'm sure you could keep some for yourself if you wanted. And my bag of quinoa is from Canada.

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This piece of crepe has shown up three times in my feed. Ok, one was from Ginny Messina, so that was ok, but two were from quinoa-loving omnis. I went ranty! I never go ranty about vegan shiitake on FB (no point) but I couldn't help myself. This article pissed me off. (To be clear, I didn't go ranty on the friends who posted this, but on the article itself.)

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yeah, this has been on my fb twice today already. i got my rant on a little. and then i just lost the will to care about idiot journalists and idiot vegan hating people. interestingly, both people who posted it in my fb circle of friends are failed vegans *eyeroll*

Yeah, I made the mistake of searching for 'quinoa' on Twitter. An awful lot of people there, like some in the comments, seem to think this means "Aha! Vegan diets are worse than meat - I knew it!" And the journalist responding to people that she "didn't choose the headline", as though the article weren't riddled with the same attitude. Besides, it's an issue that's been covered as early as this NY Times article in March 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/world/americas/20bolivia.html?_r=0

Plus side: I saw some Australians (vegan and perhaps otherwise) tweeting their disappointment and wondering about Australian-grown, so I was able to suggest the Tasmanian-grown stuff that's available 'round the place. Would be nice to bring more business to a deserving company.

This footnote was appended on 17 January 2013. To clarify: while soya is found in a variety of health products, the majority of production - 97% according to the UN report of 2006 - is used for animal feed.

I was first introduced to veganism by punks and anarchists so it all just seems so silly to me? Like, shock and horror, capitalism had negative effects. Like where do you think your clothes and your electronics come from? Don't you feel bad that people died over your iPhone? No, vegans are to blame here for eating too much quinoa.

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My quinoa boxes have recipes including salmon, mussels, shrimp, chorizo, feta and chicken stock on the back. Judging by that marketing strategy, vegans are obviously responsible for eating all the quinoa.

I haven't read the Guardian article, but Care2.com also has used a few paragraphs from it to tell us that The More You Love Quinoa, The More You Hate Bolivians. I personally don't know any. I just checked the bag I got from Costco, it's Bolivian, so must be true. They didn't mention vegans, but a few of the comments did that I could get through did.